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Brendan Dassey is escorted into court for his sentencing in Manitowoc on Aug. 2, 2007.(Photo: Associated Press)

MADISON - You haven’t heard the last of Brendan Dassey.

Gov. Tony Evers rejected Dassey’s request for a pardon in the 2005 death of Teresa Halbach. The governor also won’t consider commuting the life sentence of Dassey — who was featured in the Netflix docu-series, “Making a Murderer.”

The Pardon Advisory Board, in a release issued Friday, said the governor “is not considering requests for commutation.”

But Laura Nirider, one of Dassey’s attorneys, said in an interview this week that “the story is not over” until “Brendan goes home.”

Dassey, 30, an inmate at the Oshkosh Correctional Institute, is serving a life term.

Dassey, who turned 30 in October, is serving a life sentence for first-degree intentional homicide as party to a crime, and two other offenses, in the 2005 slaying of Halbach, 25.

Halbach, who was doing photography for Auto Trader magazine, disappeared after going to Steven Avery's salvage yard in northwestern Manitowoc County to photograph a car Avery wanted to sell. Some of her remains were later found on Avery's property, and her Toyota sport-utility vehicle was found in the salvage yard.

While the Pardon Advisory Board has stated that it will not consider commutations, Evers is not bound by those rules, according to Nirider.

“(The governor) does have the power to issue commutations under the Wisconsin Constitution and should do so when, as here, courts fail to deliver justice,” she said.

Dassey’s lawyers contend that Dassey has been imprisoned for 13 years “based only on a false confession that is inconsistent with the known facts of the case, has been disproven by DNA and forensic evidence, and was immediately recanted.”

Avery, Dassey’s uncle, also hopes to get out of prison, claiming he was wrongfully convicted. His case is pending before the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.

The next step for Dassey, Nirider said, is to work with the governor on commutation issues.

“We’ve got a team of experts ready,” she said.

Andy Thompson can be reached at 920-996-7270 or by email @athompson@postcrescent.com. Follow him on Twitter @Thompson_AW.